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Public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation

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Abstract

We describe a public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, available at this http URL, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project. The FIRE-2 simulations achieve parsec-scale resolution to explicitly model the multi-phase interstellar medium while implementing direct models for stellar evolution and feedback, including stellar winds, core-collapse and Ia supernovae, radiation pressure, photoionization, and photoelectric heating. We release complete snapshots from 3 suites of simulations. The first comprises 20 simulations that zoom in on 14 Milky Way-mass galaxies, 5 SMC/LMC-mass galaxies, and 4 lower-mass galaxies including 1 ultra-faint; we release snapshots at z = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. The second comprises 4 more massive galaxies simulated to z = 1, with snapshots at z = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Finally, a high-redshift suite comprises 22 simulations at z = 5 and 6. Each simulation also includes dozens of resolved lower-mass (satellite) galaxies in its zoom-in region. Snapshots include all stored properties for all dark matter, gas, and star particles, including 11 elemental abundances for stars and gas, and formation times (ages) of star particles. We also release accompanying (sub)halo catalogs, which include galaxy properties and member star particles. For the simulations to z = 0, including all Milky Way-mass galaxies, we release an "ex-situ" flag for star particles, pointers to track particles across snapshots, catalogs of stellar streams, and multipole basis expansions for the halo mass distributions. We describe several publicly available python packages for reading and analyzing these simulations.

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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). We generated the FIRE-2 simulations using: Stampede and Stampede 2, via the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), supported by NSF grant ACI-1548562, including allocations TG-AST120025, TG-AST140023, TG-AST140064, TG-AST160048; Blue Waters, supported by the NSF; Frontera, supported by the NSF and TACC, including allocations AST21010 and AST20016; Pleiades, via the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, including allocations HEC SMD-16-7592, SMD-16-7561, SMD-17-120; and the Quest computing cluster at Northwestern University. This work uses data hosted by the Flatiron Institute's FIRE data hub, and we generated data using the Flatiron Institute's computing clusters rusty and popeye; the Flatiron Institute is supported by the Simons Foundation. yt Hub is supported in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Data-Driven Discovery Initiative through Grant GBMF4561 to Matthew Turk and the National Science Foundation under Grant ACI-1535651. AW received support from: NSF CAREER award AST-2045928 and NSF grant AST-2107772; NASA ATP grants 80NSSC18K1097 and 80NSSC20K0513; HST grants GO-14734, AR-15057, AR-15809, GO-15902 from STScI; a Scialog Award from the Heising-Simons Foundation; and a Hellman Fellowship. RES and NP acknowledge support from NASA grant 19-ATP19-0068; and RES, FN, and AA acknowledge support from the Research Corporation through the Scialog Fellows program on Time Domain Astronomy, and from NSF grant AST-2007232; RES additionally acknowledges support from HST-AR-15809 from STScI. DAA was supported in part by NSF grants AST-2009687 and AST-2108944. TKC is supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) astronomy consolidated grant ST/P000541/1 and ST/T000244/1. JS was supported by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-2102729. ZH was supported by a Gary A. McCue postdoctoral fellowship at UC Irvine. SL was supported by NSF grant AST-2109234 and HST-AR-16624 from STScI. MBK acknowledges support from NSF CAREER award AST-1752913, NSF grants AST-1910346 and AST-2108962, NASA grant NNX17AG29G, and HST grants AR-15006, AR-15809, GO-15658, GO-15901, GO-15902, AR-16159, GO-16226 from STScI. CAFG was supported by NSF through grants AST-1715216, AST-2108230, and CAREER award AST-1652522; by NASA through grants 17-ATP17-0067 and 21-ATP21-0036; by STScI through grant HST-AR-16124.001-A; and by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement through a Cottrell Scholar Award and a Scialog Award. DK was supported by NSF grants AST-1715101 and AST-2108314. Support for PFH was provided by NSF Research Grants 1911233, 20009234, 2108318, NSF CAREER grant 1455342, NASA grants 80NSSC18K0562, HST-AR-15800.

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http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06969 (URL)
http://flathub.flatironinstitute.org/fire (URL)

Funding

NSF
ACI-1548562
NSF
TG-AST120025
NSF
TG-AST140023
NSF
TG-AST140064
NSF
TG-AST160048
NSF
AST-21010
NSF
AST-20016
NASA
SMD-16-7592
NASA
SMD-16-7561
NASA
SMD-17-1204
Flatiron Institute
Simons Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
GBMF4561
NSF
ACI-1535651
NSF
AST-2045928
NSF
AST-2107772
NASA
80NSSC18K1097
NASA
80NSSC20K0513
NASA
HST-GO-14734
NASA
HST-AR-15057
NASA
HST-AR-15809
NASA
HST-GO-15902
Heising-Simons Foundation
Scialog Award
Hellman Fellowship
NASA
19-ATP19-0068
Scialog Fellow of Research Corporation
NSF
AST-2007232
NSF
AST-2009687
NSF
AST-2108944
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
ST/P000541/1
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
ST/T000244/1
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellowship
AST-2102729
University of California, Irvine
NSF
AST-2109234
NASA
HST-AR-16624
NSF
AST-1752913
NSF
AST-1910346
NSF
AST-2108962
NASA
NNX17AG29G
NASA
HST-AR-15006
NASA
HST-AR-15809
NASA
HST-GO-15658
NASA
HST-GO-15901
NASA
HST-GO-15902
NASA
HST-AR-16159
NASA
HST-GO-16226
NSF
AST-1715216
NSF
AST-2108230
NSF
AST-1652522
NASA
17-ATP17-0067
NASA
21-ATP21-0036
NASA
HST-AR-16124.001-A
NSF
AST-1715101
NSF
AST-2108314
NSF
AST-1911233
NSF
AST-20009234
NSF
AST-2108318
NSF
AST-1455342
NASA
80NSSC18K0562
NASA
HST-AR-15800

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